What Explains Differences between Dementia Patients' and Their Caregivers' Ratings of Patients' Quality of Life?

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 272-280

  Sands, Laura P ^a   Ferreira, Patricia ^b   Stewart, Anita L ^b   Brod, Meryl ^c   Yaffe, Kristine ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Brod Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84903148811     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200405000-00006     Document Type: Article

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